Auguste Caroline Lammer
Auguste Caroline Lammer (born Hofbauer; born October 28, 1885 in Vienna ; † January 16, 1937 there ) was an Austrian bank founder ("Lammerbank" in Zell am See ).
Auguste Lammer attended school in Braunau and Simbach and then completed an apprenticeship at Dannerbank in Braunau from 1900 to 1906. Then she was a railroad employee in Attnang-Puchheim and for a short time at the Austrian Tourist Office in Berlin . In 1909 she married Max Leopold Ritter Lammer von Castell Rombaldo (1858-1939), the station master in Attnang-Puchheim, who had a son from his first marriage, the future actor Max Lammer . Also in 1909 their son Alfred was born in Linz .
In 1910 she founded a travel agency and an exchange office in Zell am See. During the First World War , business was idle because her husband was called up to build field railways in Russian Poland and she followed there with the children. The divorce took place in 1918. In 1920 she founded a banking business in Zell am See together with Frank Whitehead, the meanwhile owner of Schielleiten Castle from the industrial family Whitehead in Fiume (Rijeka), from which Georg Ludwig von Trapp's first wife , Frank's sister, Agathe Whitehead, came from .
Through the acquaintance with the Munich art dealer Hugo von Grundherr zu Altenthann und Weyerhaus, the decline of their bank, the Lammerbank, began. The landlord was the owner of Mittersill Castle . He took on debts against the return of pledges, such as the library of the castle and above all a painting by Leonardo da Vinci , which at that time was valued at around one million schillings (around 2.8 million euros today). When a bank in which the landlord was in debt bought the Mittersill Palace by auction, Auguste Caroline Lammer bought it. Because, among other things, the "Leonardo picture" was no longer for sale, Lammerbank went bankrupt.
Augustine Lammer was arrested in 1935 and sentenced to three years in prison for fraud, infidelity and other things. She was imprisoned in the Wiener Neudorf women's prison. During her imprisonment she died on January 16, 1937 of lung burn (" pulmonary gangrene ") in the General Hospital of the City of Vienna .
Her grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery existed until 1952.
literature
- Gschwandtner, Martin: Auguste Caroline Lammer (1885–1937). A woman in a male domain. Hamburg 2015. ISBN 978-3-95425-942-7 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lammer, Auguste Caroline |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hofbauer, Auguste Caroline (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian bank founder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 28, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 16, 1937 |
| Place of death | Vienna |